Emotional regulation

For some people maintaining an emotion equilibrium can be incredibly difficult. Therapy allows you to find a solution maintain regulation using interventions and modalities to help achieve this equilibrium.

Some modalities that can be used for this include:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

The ACT approach focuses on creating a quality of life that embraces the inevitable pain that goes with living a meaningful life. 

ACT encourages you to:

(1) accept internal events (e.g., effectively managing painful thoughts and difficult emotions without avoidance)

(2) clarify and define personally held values, which form the foundation for goal setting and behavior change

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). DBT has effectiveness with anxiety, alcohol misuse and eating pathology.

DBT focuses on developing skills to cope with difficulties in emotion regulation, both over control and lack of control. DBT posits a theory of emotion dysregulation that includes an emotional vulnerability to stressors and an inability to self-soothe or regulate intense emotional arousal or nonverbal and verbal expressive emotional responses.

Working with Mind Health Ireland will allow your counselor to form a case formulation where the best intervention can be used to assist in regulating emotional response.